Reviewer 1 summary

[nickynicolson]

Concluding, this paper presents a synthesis about the issues of electronic publication of nomenclatural acts after the change introduced by the Melbourne Code of 2012. Contrary to most expectations in the age of internet, nomenclatural acts are not easily available, and the evidence presented here is compelling. The recommendations are nice but may lack teeth. The journal Plants, Peoples (plural because there are many human groups and many cultures on this sole planet), Planet may be a very suitable place where to publish this article, because it concerns a crucial matter of the interaction between plants and peoples: the rules of naming plants along universal principles and throughout human generations.
Some suggestions afore mentioned may help improve clarity of text of a paper that will be welcome by the plant taxonomists and much beyond.

• Revise title #38
• Handle acronyms #39
• Revise keywords #40
• Code title #41
• Look at bibliographic metadata #42
• Add semicolon #43
• Clarify availability #44
• Clarify effective publication #45
• Grammar, sentence structure #46
• Grammar, sentence structure #47
• National infrastructure #48
• Common/rare specimens #49
• Reference for number of species published #50
• Introduction of e-publication #51
• Grammar, sentence structure #52
• Bibliographic reference metadata #53
• Revise table layout #54
• Enumerate research questions #55
• Define API acronym #58
• Define TDWG acronym #59
• Reword listing of TDWG regions #60
• Data provision - define who #61
• Make source of publication data explicit #62
• Explain date range used in analysis #63
• Explain selection of subset for visualisation #64
• Explain date range #65
• Sentence structure, brackets #66
• Link to biodiversity rich areas #67
• Explain hierarchical analysis, levels of granularity #68
• Follow same order for research questions in diff sections #69
• Grammar, word repitition #70
• Herbarium digitisation #71
• Comments on publishers #72
• Comments on preference for OA journals #73
• Clarify "catalog" #74
• Reword sentence #75
• Institutional journals #76
• Self-archiving #77
• IBC proposal #78
• Add reference to appendix #79